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Friday, 7 March 2014

Butter Chicken

Basically chicken is one among the things that doesnt have any aroma of its own and goes well with any spice added to it. Hence it can be prepared like pepper chicken, chilli chicken. Butter chicken is the easiest one to prepare and even kids would love eating them. This creamy texture and taste can very well goes with roti, naan, parotta or even jeera rice.My kid Haricharan normally doent like any spicy dish. He tried it with rotis and he liked it a lot. Here is the simple recipe to make it.Ingredients

Chicken - 250 gms

Butter - 2 tbsp

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp

Cashews - 6 to 8

Milk - 1 cup(preboiled and cooled)

Onion - 1 small sized (optional)

Tomato - 2 medium sized

Tomato sauce - 1 tbsp

Kasoori methi (dried)- 1 tsp

Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp

Garam masala - 1 tsp

Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp

Oil - 1 tbsp

Cooking steps

Cut Onions, tomatoes and chicken into small pieces and keep aside

Grind cashews with little milk(1 tbsp) to a fine paste in a blender/mixer.

Add tomato sauce and ground cashew paste in milk and mix well and keep aside

Add chilli powder, coriander powder and garam masala and mix well

In a preheated frying pan, Add a tsp of butter and let it melts.

Add chicken in tawa and make a quick stir.

Add salt and garam masala to the chicken and let it cook completely and keep aside.